Empire: Total War Summary Thread

[Vuk]

Try controlling 20 ships in IG...its utterly impossible. The main issues for me where simple:
Its nearly impossible to form a line of battle
If you DO manage to form a line of battle, by the time you've organized your ships your group has sailed off/nearly sailed off the battle area
The computer has no idea how naval combat works, but even so, it can command multiple ships at once with ease and thus can destroy you in any engagement with more than say, two ships, simply based on the fact that it manipulates all its ships at once, while a mere human simply cant effectivly command four ships across a whole map at once. Especially when they 'retreat' if they sail out of the battle area.

Unless theres some way to automate/command multiple ships at once (in an effecient manner), naval combat is screwed.
IG's naval combat had the EXACT same commands as I see in the screenshots here.

After reading what they said about the wind and stuff I doubt that they will make it to simple/unrealistic. Knowing Sega though, I don't that they will make it too complex.

[Mac Clan]

I never bought the magazine (I subscribe to them, never buy from newsstands), but the interface itself seems to have only the classic R:TW button for "withdrawing" your troops. We can always hope the land battle ones are different.

Hey, is it possible to scan or something like it, the screenshots of the Campaign Map?

I take it you still might have the ETW cover story of game star, those are screenshots of the Campaign Map, right?

[Evil_Maniac From Mars]

I don't have a scanner, unfortunately. Sorry. Perhaps I may get one for my birthday, but that's still quite a ways off.

[Mac Clan]

I don't have a scanner, unfortunately. Sorry. Perhaps I may get one for my birthday, but that's still quite a ways off.

No worries. Happy pre birthday. :D

[KLAssurbanipal]

Some units to European Wars mod (Empire TW period for RTW):

French Cuirassier, early 18th century:




British Redcoat:




Mousquetaire, First Company, mid-18th century:




Prussian Musketeer, mid-18th century:




more here: http://twcenter.net/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=533

[Mac Clan]

That looks pretty damn good.

[Fisherking]

In the review of the Russian PC magazine article someone making a translations said that they have begun work on the second title for the game engine.

Hay! It is interesting that they are already working on the second game with the engine. Doubtless they have already planed the expansions for both too. So now we have not one new game but two….and no release date for the first one, just speculation.

It could be in error but some how I doubt it.

Do you think they will soon announce a working title for the next game or keep it secret until this one is released, when ever that is.

I won’t go further as it would only be unbridled speculation…

[Vuk]

In the middle of development for M2TW, they announce that they were working on something completely different. It wasn't untill long after M2TW that we found out what it was. I think that they will probably wait untill Empire has been out for a while and they have time to get the new game looking presentable.
The good news is that nearly all of the engine development is probably done now. :P

[Boyar Son]

I cant believe it...after reading all these things in the forums...

this game is gonna be so Huge that I dont think any computer from a middle clas person will be able to run it...

All these nations, troops, voices, graphics, research, naval battles...

ALL those cities across the world!!!!!!!!!!!11111


doesnt any see that this game will be a HUGE monster and will require __ALOT__ of upgrades!??!?!

[LadyAnn]

I cant believe it...after reading all these things in the forums...

this game is gonna be so Huge that I dont think any computer from a middle clas person will be able to run it...

All these nations, troops, voices, graphics, research, naval battles...

ALL those cities across the world!!!!!!!!!!!11111


doesnt any see that this game will be a HUGE monster and will require __ALOT__ of upgrades!??!?!

How could you not mention those fantasy units? :)

Annie

[Quinn Inuit]

50+ factions?!?!

*Drools*

*Faints*

[Boyar Son]

Ok really no disrespect to CA, just overreacted when I saw that this game is gonna be BIG.

[Mac Clan]

50+ factions?!?!

*Drools*

*Faints*

Yes, but only 10 of those 50 are planned to be playable.

[pevergreen]

Around 10 factions have been announced, all playable. Others will be. Even then the ETW version of desc_strat will unlock the rest.

[Jolt]

Sweden? Poland-Lithuania? OMFG Venice? And Portugal's not even confirmed? What a joke.

[Martok]

Sweden? Poland-Lithuania? OMFG Venice? And Portugal's not even confirmed? What a joke.

I wouldn't worry about it just yet. Unless you know something the rest of us don't, CA hasn't confirmed the list of factions for ETW (of which approximately 10 will be playable and another 40 or so will be non-playable). At worst, I'm fairly confident all 4 will at least make it into the game as non-playable factions in some form. More specifically, I would guess that at least 1-2 of those nations you just mentioned will be among the playable factions as well.

[Jolt]

I wouldn't worry about it just yet. Unless you know something the rest of us don't, CA hasn't confirmed the list of factions for ETW (of which approximately 10 will be playable and another 40 or so will be non-playable). At worst, I'm fairly confident all 4 will at least make it into the game as non-playable factions in some form. More specifically, I would guess that at least 1-2 of those nations you just mentioned will be among the playable factions as well.

What I was surprised about was that supposedly...Poland Lithuania, which never had an empire, unless you consider Lithuania being Poland's empire, is going to be a playable faction. Sweden never had any significant colonies, which can be resumed to a couple of islands and forts, either lost quickly or sold. Venice..Heh, By 1700 it held little political power, having lost it's economic power, by that century it lost the few colonies left they had to the Turks, and were invaded by Napoleon and subsquently annexed by Austria. This is more fanboyage of the Old Greatness of Venice.
Whereas Portugal which was in pair with Great Britain, Spain, France and the Netherlands, the primary colonial empires which this game is seemingly based upon isn't even confirmed as a playable nation. That's why I'm calling it a joke.

[pevergreen]

Confirmed factions so far in Empire:

Britain
America
Sweden
United Provinces(Netherlands)
Poland-Lithuania
Russia
Prussia
Venice
Spain
France
Ottoman Empire

Confirmed.

[Mac Clan]

And how have these factions been confirmed? From my experiences, nothing is confirmed until it's installed in my hard drive.

Another thing is that CA has a habit of hardlocking stuff that is too heavily coded into the game--which is why the Papal States were available to play as, but the Mongols weren't.

[Martok]

And how have these factions been confirmed? From my experiences, nothing is confirmed until it's installed in my hard drive.

Well given Lusted/Jack Lusted works for CA now, I'd say he should know what factions are in if any one does.

Of course, we don't yet know which of those factions will actually be *playable*, so feel free to continue speculating on that part.

[Captain Fishpants]

Well given Lusted/Jack Lusted works for CA now, I'd say he should know what factions are in if any one does.

Jack does indeed work for us, and like the rest of the staff is bound by the terms and conditions of his contract. That means, in this context, not saying things out of turn. So be nice to him: he can't tell you things that he can't tell you.

[Mouzafphaerre]

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I think Martok means what Lusted posted as confirmed faction list should be taken granted.
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[Martok]

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I think Martok means what Lusted posted as confirmed faction list should be taken granted.
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Exactly.

I understand NDA's, CF, and how they limit what you can (and cannot) say. I wouldn't expect you, Lusted, or anyone else from CA to devulge information you're not supposed to.

[Evil_Maniac From Mars]

Exactly.

I understand NDA's, CF, and how they limit what you can (and cannot) say. I wouldn't expect you, Lusted, or anyone else from CA to devulge information you're not supposed to.

TBH, I wouldn't like it if they did reveal too much at once. I like the suspense.

[pevergreen]

They should be allowed to reveal everything...to me in a PM

[Herkus]

New Empire screenshots are available on the IGN site. Mostly new artwork and some screenies from sea battles.
http://media.pc.ign.com/media/958/958390/imgs_1.html

[rajpoot]

Wow man, those screens are totally awesome!!! Specially those ships and the water. And I'll wager this is still not the highest graphic quality! This'll be soooo good!
But, I hope they do something to the guys on the ships. It'll look a tad bit weird if they keep standing rigid while the ship sways like hell......and about the variety, I mean, they made some improvement in M2TW reducing the similarity between the soldiers, but still it looked a bit too uniform and unrealistic when viewed from above...........I hope they do something more about it here.

[snorky]

I dont really understand why people want to play as huge empires, personal the factions i enjoy the most are the ones that start out with max 4 regions i want to build an empire not getting it served on a silver plateau. If you make your own empire you know its strengths and weaknesses

[eddy_purpus]

I COULD NOT THINK WHAT COULD HAPPEN IF THE GAME COMPLETELY IS FULL OF BUG AND ANTIPIRACY SOFTWARE LIKE SOME OTHER GAMES.
I MEAN . . .
THIS GAME IS THE MOST AWAITED 08 GAME :P
SO DONT LET US DOWN CREATIVE ASSEMBLY AND DEVELOPERS
OK ?



C YA

[adamsleath]

i want this game sooo bad !!!!

best period wargame of all time?

btw i will own those garrisons with my artillery!! :)